Paper-filing device



April 10, 1928. 1,665,705

F. J. KLINE PAPER FILING DEVICE Filed July 9, 1925 INVEN'TOR.

ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 10, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED J. KLINE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PAPER-FILING DEVICE.

Application filed July 9,

This invention relates to paper filing devices and particularly to such devices of the type disclosed in m co-pending application Ser. No. 722,892, led June 28, 1924, and which are adapted for filing letters, documents, commercial papers, and the like. Its main object is to provide an improved device for filing small numbers of such papers and another object is to provide an improved device of this class which is low in cost and adaptation of the same.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in all figures of the drawing.

Referring to Fig. 1 of the drawing, the numeral 1 denotes the base or backing member of a paper file. Ordinarily the said file base or backing member is slightly flexible and forms one of a pair of folding covers 1 and 2, and said covers are preferably connected together in any suitable way, in this instance directly, along the folding line 3.

ttached to the file base or backing member 1 is a member 4 which forms a support for a paper fastener or paper clip. The said member 4 has a free portion 4 having an edge 4 and there is a portion 4 attached preferably by pasting it to the backing member or cover 1 near its left hand part or near the folding line 3. I have provided slits or perforations in the free portion 4 of the member 4 and in this form of the device the slits each consist of two parts, first a part 5 starting at the outer edge 4, oblique thereto and joining a second part 5 ordinarily parallel with the ends of the member 4.

For some sorts of filing I place a paper fastener such as 7 in the slits 5, and the fastener illustrated consists of a main portion 8 and two spaced apart tongues such as 9 which can be bent up at right angles to the portion 8. To place the paper fastener 7 on the member 4, the portions 10 of the 1925. Serial No. 42,565.

same, adjacent to the slits 5 are bent upwardly, and the fastener 7 with its tongues 9 bent at right angles to the main portion 8 is pushed laterally into the parts 5 of the slits 5, after which the portions 10 spring back or are bent back to the plane of the remainder of the member 4. Papers to be filed are perforated and pushed onto the tongues 9 and these are then bent down upon the topmost paper.

In Fig. 2 I have illustrated another mode of attachment of the tongued member or fastener 7 of Fig. 1, to the member 4. The latter in this form is provided with slits 11 which do not extend fully to the outer edge 4 of the member 4 and there are no oblique parts to said slits. The other details of the device are arranged substantially as in the form described in Fig. 1.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 3, two of the members 4 are shown arranged so that different forms of paper fasteners can be used when desired. Several perforations 12 are provided in each member 4 and the latter are attached to the file base or folding cover 1 by their right hand portion 4 in a manner similar to that described in the foregoing forms. Several sorts of paper fasteners may be used with this type of device, such as the long tongued fastener 13, or the Wire paper clips 14 illustrated in the figure. Even longer tongued fasteners can be used by utilizing the outer perforations 12, and shorter fasteners such as those of Figs. 1 and 2 can be used with the inner perforations. When wire paper clips are used on the edges 4 of the portions 4, the file base or cover 1 can be slightly flexed to allow them to be put in place with or without papers. The papers, letters, documents and the like to be held, are ordinarily fastened to the clips 14 by slipping them under the same usually in a lateral direction.

The member 4 may be comparatively stiff or it may be comparatively flexible. In the former condition, the file base or cover 1 is ordinarily made flexible, but in the lastnamed condition, the cover or backing member may be comparatively rigid. In each case there can be relative movement between the member 1 and the member 4 so that the paper fastener 7 or clip 14 can be more easily and readily inserted or removed. Also in some cases both members can be IOU ill)

flexible, thus increasing the amount of relative separation when inserting or removing the actual paper holder.

The portion d of the member 4 may be secured to the file base or cover 1 in any suitable manner such as by pasting it as shown in Fig. 1 or by metallic fasteners suchas eyelets or rivets as 15 ii Fig. 3. The said member 4 may be of'paper'boar'd or like material, or of suitable metal, and said materials may be more or less flexible as desired". In the forms shown in Figs'l and 3, a number of papers can be placed in the member itog'ether with the fastener 7 or clip 14:, and removed therefrom together. Also theclips l l can be used on the forms shown iii-Figs. 1 and 2, especially ifthe members 4 are slightly longer, by slipping the clips onto the free edges 4 in the manner fully explained for the form shown 111' Fig. 3. I y

The above devices are especially fitted for use where only a small number of papers, such as one, two, and up to a dozen'or so, is desired to be filed and the devices shown are Very advantageous as the construction is simple and inexpensive and adapted to flexure between said base and the free side of the supporting-member to permit the fastener to be attached to said free side.

2; The combination of a foldable file base,

a fastener supporting-member lying substantially flat uponsaid base and wholly upon one sideof the fold line, one of said parts being relatively flexible, the fastener supporting-member having one side secured to the file base and another side free, and a fastener attached to said free side, the free side of said supporting-member being adapted to be separated from the file base by relative flexure between said base and the free side of the suppo1't-ingmember to permit the fastener to be attached to said free side.

3. The combination of 'a flexible file base, a relatively stiff, fiat fastener supportingmember secured to said base along one side thereof and having another side free, and a fastener attached to the free side of'said supporting-member, the free side' of said supporting-member being adapted to be se Jarated from the file base b T ben'din said be secured to said side.

4. The combination of a file base, a pair of spaced fastener supporting-members secured to said base by one portion thereof and having another portion free and adapted to be separated from the base to permit a fastener to be attached thereto, the free portion of each support-ing-member having a plurality of perforations, the perforations of each member being adapted to receive one tongue of a two-tongued fastener, the perforations of each member being spaced in the direction which the fastener is adapted to extend whereby fasteners having tongues spaced different distances apart may be secured to said supporting-members. Signed at :New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 7th day of July, 1925. Y

FRED J. KLINE. 

